Prominent Nigerian Instagram star Ramon Abbas (@hushpuppi) was on Wednesday sentenced to 11 years in a federal prison for his role in operating a worldwide money laundering scheme.

In addition to his sentence, the accused was also ordered by a California Judge to reimburse $1.7 million as part of his sentence.

According to court documents, Abbas was a renowned Instagram star known for his flamboyant lifestyle. However, the flamboyance was funded by defrauding people through so-called business email compromise scams (BEC).

Reports from the US Justice Department also revealed that in 2020, Abbas posed as a Wells Fargo banker in New York in order to steal money from a Qatari businessperson who was looking for a loan to build a school.

In addition, Abbas scammed the businessperson out of more than $1 million with the help of three other accomplices.

Further reports also revealed that the accused and a Canadian man was also behind a transnational scheme that fleeced $14.7 million from a bank in Malta in January 2019.

It is understood that the cash stolen would be used to fund the Northern Korean Government.

Federal prosecutors also alluded that Abbas also helped launder millions of pounds stolen from a British company and a professional soccer club in the United Kingdom and got a New York-based law firm to transfer nearly $923,000 to a criminal account.

His reign of terror however came to an abrupt halt in June 2020 after he was arrested in the United Arab Emirates and transported him to the U.S. He has been in federal custody ever since; Abbas also pleaded guilty in April 2021 for conspiracy to engage in money laundering.